Tim Greer
07-27-2001, 06:03 AM
While I've had a few emails with the attachment of this virus, I never got it (in fact, I've never had a virus), but many people I know have. However, it seems there might be more to this than what we know thus far, and here's why:
I'm not sure if this is the same virus, or a modified version, perhaps the original or just another version of it, but there's been cases of much more severe damage.
My wife went to a meeting in Sacramento about 3 weeks ago. At that meeting, her regional manager had informed all the managers at this meeting, to be careful, as he had a virus on his system that did some pretty severe damage to his system, and that it appeared that it emailed the virus in various attachments out to all the people in his email list of managers (myself included).
I don't recall getting the email, but some of the other manager's did get it and get infected as well. Some were running virus scanners that picked up and apparently cleaned up. However, what happened, it seems, (and this is before any reports of this virus I know of!), was that not only did it replicate itself and send itself, along with documents and whatnot, out to all these people, but after 30 days (I don't know if it's after 30 days from first getting it, or whatever the case was, but) it popped up a message on his system in large letters saying "Eat **** and die!" or something to that effect. His system has ceased to operate since that message and I believe massive damage was done to his file system -- or so was the same exact case reported to be true by him, as well as some of these other managers that got this virus.
This, to me, sounds like the same virus, or very similar. I'd be almost certain that this virus was checked and they know what this code is doing. So, I am wondering if this wasn't discovered yet, or was it? If not in this virus, is there (it would definitely seem there was!) another similar or other version of this virus that will do more damage within the 30th day or having it? Be careful, and you might want to back up your files, unless or until there's some information about this particular one (if it's the one everyone's getting -- maybe people are getting different versions?) is not that type, or if it's not that version -- because there's definitely one that is very much like this, that does far greater damage.. unless this one does itself and I just didn't read that much about it. However, I don't recall any mention of it, so watch out.
I'm not sure if this is the same virus, or a modified version, perhaps the original or just another version of it, but there's been cases of much more severe damage.
My wife went to a meeting in Sacramento about 3 weeks ago. At that meeting, her regional manager had informed all the managers at this meeting, to be careful, as he had a virus on his system that did some pretty severe damage to his system, and that it appeared that it emailed the virus in various attachments out to all the people in his email list of managers (myself included).
I don't recall getting the email, but some of the other manager's did get it and get infected as well. Some were running virus scanners that picked up and apparently cleaned up. However, what happened, it seems, (and this is before any reports of this virus I know of!), was that not only did it replicate itself and send itself, along with documents and whatnot, out to all these people, but after 30 days (I don't know if it's after 30 days from first getting it, or whatever the case was, but) it popped up a message on his system in large letters saying "Eat **** and die!" or something to that effect. His system has ceased to operate since that message and I believe massive damage was done to his file system -- or so was the same exact case reported to be true by him, as well as some of these other managers that got this virus.
This, to me, sounds like the same virus, or very similar. I'd be almost certain that this virus was checked and they know what this code is doing. So, I am wondering if this wasn't discovered yet, or was it? If not in this virus, is there (it would definitely seem there was!) another similar or other version of this virus that will do more damage within the 30th day or having it? Be careful, and you might want to back up your files, unless or until there's some information about this particular one (if it's the one everyone's getting -- maybe people are getting different versions?) is not that type, or if it's not that version -- because there's definitely one that is very much like this, that does far greater damage.. unless this one does itself and I just didn't read that much about it. However, I don't recall any mention of it, so watch out.